Walking In Spirit

My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:1-11

You cannot walk in the flesh and the spirit at the same time. 

The path of the light has a set of guidelines and rules for you to follow if you want to be on that path. The path of darkness also has a set of rules and guidelines. Travelers must choose a set of walking rules. The path travelers go on is not determined by the path they want to be on but by the rules they follow. If you want to be on the path of light, you must walk by the rules of the light. If you walk by the rules of the path of darkness, you will be on the path of darkness no matter how much you claim to and want to be on the other path.

Satan's goal is to get you to sin.

Satan doesn’t care about the path that you want to walk on, he only cares about the path you actually walk on. The key guideline of the path of darkness is living in sin while the key discipline of the path of light is living righteously. Living righteously and walking on the path of light does not come from your own righteousness, but from Christ’s righteousness at work in you. When we walk in the light as He is in the light (1 John 1:7), we allow His light to shine through us as we walk along His path with Him.

The greatest expression of godliness is helping others become more godly.

God demonstrated His love for us in that while we were on the path of darkness, He brought the light to us. We are imitating Christ’s love for us when we love one another and bring His light to them. When we bring light to a brother who is walking in darkness, we fulfill the love of God and demonstrate that we are walking in the light. We must take heed that when we bring light to our brother that we don’t stumble onto his path of darkness (Galtians 6:1), but if we are truly walking on God’s path, we will be compelled to share His light with others. Choose which path you will walk on and bring someone with you.